Posted on 02/02/2020 8:20:48 AM PST by Kaslin
As the nation gets ready for a presidential election, the Democratic Party is in total turmoil. Their 2020 presidential candidates are not exciting voters. There is a very large field of candidates, but none of them seem able to defeat President Donald Trump in the upcoming general election.
Among the candidates, no one has the charisma of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. While each of the major candidates has supporters and is raising millions of dollars, the only candidate to create true devotion is U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), practically an octogenarian.
The polls show Sanders leading in Iowa and New Hampshire and he has just overtaken former Vice President Joe Biden in the latest national Democratic presidential nomination poll conducted by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. He is leading in fundraising and has the type of dedicated volunteers not found in the other Democrat campaigns.
In the latest general election poll conducted by Investor’s Business Daily, Trump leads Sanders by two points. This confirms what most political analysts believe which is that Sanders cannot win a general election against the President. One of the major reasons is that Sanders is an avowed “Democratic-Socialist,” who has far left positions on healthcare, the economy, climate change and an array of other issues.
While Sanders is far to the political left, the United States of America is usually described as a “center-right” nation. Clearly, Democratic Party leaders understand that Sanders is too liberal to win a general election. This is why he is being discriminated against once again.
In 2016, the Democratic National Committee worked with Hillary Clinton to rig the nomination process and prevent Sanders from winning. In this election, the attacks on Sanders are intensifying. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed that Sanders expressed a view in a private 2018 meeting that a woman could not win the presidency. Even though Sanders denied making the statement, anchors and reporters on CNN and other networks sided with Warren.
In recent days, Hillary Clinton jumped into the fray and made a disparaging comment about Sanders that will appear in a new documentary. In reference to Sanders, Clinton claimed that “nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done.”
This attack exposes the division between the establishment wing of the Democratic Party and the more progressive wing that is affiliated with Sanders. These groups disagree on policy, but agree on one thing, their hatred of President Donald Trump.
Democrats bet everything on the impeachment and conviction of President Trump. Now that it has failed, the American people are likely to blame Democrats for ignoring the problems of the country and focusing on the constant harassing of the president. Certainly, the President’s core support is not fading away. For the past few months, his support has been steady with an approval rating averaging in the mid to high 40’s.
The impeachment debacle has not harmed the president politically at all. In fact, his supporters seem more energized than ever. This week, he held a raucous rally in the “deep blue” state of New Jersey. People started camping out in front of the arena two days before the event. In an arena that held less than 8,000 people, there was an incredible demand for tickets with over 175,000 requests.
The Democratic presidential candidates are lucky to draw a few dozen people to their events. Thus, the contrast cannot be starker between the two parties.
The last three incumbent presidents to lose re-election, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush, all faced tough economic conditions. Usually, Americans “vote their pocketbook,” and will re-elect a President who is presiding over good economic times.
Currently, the American economy is the envy of the world. With historically low unemployment, positive economic growth and record stock market gains, Americans are enjoying the best economic conditions in 50 years. This week, President Trump signed the new USMCA trade agreement which will spur economic growth even more. He has also made tremendous progress on a new trade deal with China. In response, Democrats are offering impeachment and socialism, not very attractive alternatives in good economic times.
The best way for Democrats to win was for President Trump to be convicted and removed from office by the U.S. Senate. They tried and failed to force additional witnesses to be allowed in the impeachment trial. This would have extended the trial, giving Democrats more time to uncover evidence damning to the President.
It was the same formula used in the Supreme Court hearings of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. Democrats lost those battles, and have failed once again with their latest obsession to remove President Trump from office. Fortunately, while the Democratic Party has lost, the American people have won a major victory.
Great headline.
Saw some Poll on Fox yesterday that said ALL the Democrats running would beat POTUS Trump if the Election were held today.
Don’t know if it was an Iowa Poll or Nationwide.
Anybody who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
It doesn’t matter if they are a friend or relative.
Anybody who still supports the Democrats has a criminal heart.
All Democrats in the race are deranged leftists. They are all kooks. Not just Bernie.
Sort of on the fence here in regards to the November elections.
On one hand, Republicans controlling the three branches of government is appealing. On the other hand, four more years of an obstructionist, Democrat-controlled House will only help Republicans keep the White House in 2024, IMHO.
Because the Left always overplays its hand and never learns from the past.
Why is a declared "Independent" ALLOWED to run as a demonrat?
I believe that Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic nomination after a civil war in the Democratic Party. It will be exactly how the tea party movement started the war in the establishment Republican Party, which was finished by Trump. Pelosi never unerstood the power of the Tea Party movement, nor does she understand the power of the socialist Democrats. She continues to desperately try to save it.
Yes, but Biden is the most entertaining.
B.S. No way in in hell.
To disembowel the Green party and to act as a firewall to protect the 'mainstream' candidate from attacks from the left. He puts on a good fight, gets a free house out of it, a few more million in the bank, and liberals can pat themselves on their back for taking into account the wants and desires of the net-nutts wing of the party.
Only Bernie's doing better than their chosen one.
Do not underestimate Bernie Sanders and the support for socialism.
During good economic times, people tend to worry about “the other guy” and are willing to enact more gov’t programs.
Support for socialism is strong and so is support for single payer.
Make no mistake that Sanders has a real shot at the White House and should not be dismissed out of hand.
If nothing else, a Sanders campaign will mainstream socialist ideas into our politics forever. The next socialist candidate will not sound so “radical” as Sanders because we heard it before.
Sure.
And Hillary had the election in the bag.
“...Disaster Looms for Democrats...”
They did it to themselves.
And besides - if it’s bad for Democrats, then it absolutely MUST BE GOOD for the Country.
They chose this path. Let them wallow in it.
IOWA Democraps.....Boycott your 2020 POTUS Caucuses on Monday..or write in POTUS, Donald J Trump for POTUS in 2020 or better yet, write in and support “MICKEY MOUSE” You all have been insulted, abused and used by your party and your party leaders, scum and vermin that they all are!!! Wise up Democrap fools, you ain’t got one decent POTUS candidate for 2020!!!
Excellent question. He’s an awowed socialist. Isn’t there a an actual socialist party in America? If so he should be their nominee.
Exactly...if Trump is polling behind most of the Rats then why would they be worried? Something is amiss? Either the polls are fake or the left is faking the supposed turmoil inside the party.
Trump does not need to spend a shekel on polls
How will Soros punish Nancy for her failure to remove Trump from office?
I think you’re overthinking this. The time to move to move the football is now, not four years from now. Sure RINOS will slow down the President’s agenda, but he’d get at least some stuff through Congress if we had both houses
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